New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 PRINGESS READY FOR HOP ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN Tntrepid Woman Plans to-Join Captain Leslie Hamilton in Flight to Canada Thursday REDFERN’S START DELAYED; ” FLIGHT T0 JAPAN DISCUSSED Royal Aviatrix is Sls!er of Earl of Mexborough and Flies Undér Maiden Name, Lady Anne Saville “wagry w0y ‘PLoJIEH “aq PV nvs ;nmpauuog NEW BRITAIN STILL HOPE FOR MILDRED While ships and planes hunt the Pacific for traces of the plane in which Miss Mildred Doran was lost in the transpacific air — Husband Met Death Fighting|race, her two brothers and sister still cling to hope that she may American Forces in Phillippines— Holds a Air License. London, Aug. 24 (P—A dispatch to the Evening Star from Bristol says that it has been learned that a princess will go as passenger with Captain Leslis Hamilton and Col- onel F. F. Minchin on their project- ed transatiantic flight which is now scheduled to start tomorrow. “This intrepid woman is the Prin- cess Lowenstein-Wertheim, herself almost a ploneer in aviation, for she ds long distance flights before the war,” the dispatch said. “For near- ly 3,000 miles she will been fitted into the fuselage of the plane. Princess Lowenstein, who is 2 sis- ter of the Earl of Mexborough, usually dies under her maiden name, Lady Anne Saville. In 1897 she was married to Prince Ludwig Lowen- st tho, the Evening ilippines while figh American forces there. | The princess, who has held a fly- ing license for 13 years, has flown with Captain Hamilton a number of times. She was a passenger in his entry in the 1923 king's cup race. Two years ago she and Captain Hamilton attempted a London to| Paris flight. Their plane was not | seen after it passed Folkestone. chanpel search was begun. After an all night search, craft participat- ing in the hunt found the plane near Fontoise, France. It had been forced down by engine trouble. The princess was born in 1865. In 1358 she became a German su but regained her British nation; in 1918, For some time there have been rumors that a woman would accom- y Hamilton, but her identity was lity | 1ystery. J‘ nical Solo Tlight Planned | Citcago, Aug. 24 (P—A proposed non-stop solo flight from Tacoma, Wash., to Tokio, Japan, a distance of 4400 miles, which would shatter all existing distance records if suc- cessful, was disclosed here today Gerale J. Smith, aviator of Tacoma, Wash. Smith, en route to Denver from | New York by air, said the feat would be attempted next June, f nanced by Tacoma business men in e plane that will cost $55,000. “The object of the flight,” Smith eaid, “is to prove that it {s safe and practical. It will be made in an Amphibian biplane, motored with three engines.” Smith will fly, he said, over th great circle route, which will pu the plane within 300 miles of land (Continued on Page Thirteen) Mrs. Roosevelt Buys General Putnam Inn | Providence, R. I, Augz. 24 (A—| The historic General Putnam inn at Brookly Conn., was purchased vesterday by Mrs. Theodore Roose- | , who will operate it as a hos- | The property, known as Mort- | ke manor, was deeded by Morti- | mer Marlar to Miss Marian P.| who will be associated Roosevelt in the ventur and the latter in turn.deeded it to | the late president's widow. Since her return from a trip to | Bouth America last winter, Mrs. | Poosevelt has lived in Danielson Conn. She is reputed to be an e cellent business manager and is sald to have managed with a firm hand e houschold finand of the Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay, N. Lindy’s Epic Flight Theme of Symphony || e —— 24 (UP)—Colonel 3 s epic flight to Paris has been put to music. The bedlam of an ocean the roar of an airy the lyrical —are the e up the symphony. It will be rendered for the first time next Sat- urday night at the Lewisohn sta- diug J storm: | ' Phillip Dunn, the composer, has named the symphonic pofm “We.” The first theme signifies the courage of th The tempo changes. Percuss instruments bang their description of tuning up, the spin of the propell Then comes the hammering of mechanics and the fueling of the “Spirit of St. Louis.” The plane “hons off.” The shrill of fire engine sirens depicts that ctage in the chronological symphony and follows representation of storm and sleet. Then triumph in the landing at Paris comes as the finale. Station WRC will broadcast the music from Washington. keep her| lookout from a cane chair that has| A|able rates for the transmission of fation of the Lati | of nations must {has been mads the be saved. They are (left to right) Flmd 14; Helen, 10, and | William, 24, NEWSPAPERMEN OF | WORLD IN GENEVA {Trying fo Be of Even Gogater Service to Public U. §. WELL REPRESENTED London Daily Telegraph Proprietor | | Addresses Conference Asking | Journalists to Brealk Down Bar- riers of National Exclusiveness. (P—>Men who Geneva, Aug. 24 are managing the agencies | and the newspapers of the world gathered at Geneva today under the | auspices of the league of nations in | an international conference to study | problems connected with their pro- fession. Improvement in the means | communjeation, telegraphic, | phonic and wireless, more reason- | of news, better facilitfes in the collec- | uion of news, the removal of cen- | !sorship in peace time and examina- [tion of the general problems of the |legal protection of press informa- |tion were subjects of the agenda. as repre- sented by per, general | manager, assisted by Charles Steph- | enson Smith, chief of the foreign iservice, and Joseph E. Sharkey, | | correspondent at Geneva, as tech-| advisers. Other Americans were Karl A. Bickel of the United Press; M. Koenigsberg of the In-| ternational News Service; Frederick !T. Birchall, acting managing editor | of New York Times, assisted by | ‘Ed in C. James, its Paris con—e-\ t P. Scripps of pps-Howard newspapers. There also was a large repn“rt-‘ | American Opening the conference, Lord | Burnham, proprietor of the Daily | | Telegraph of London, who presided. | declared that the functions of news- | |papers in affecting conditions of the |supply and demand of commedities of which mankind stands in need are so important and are increas- ing to such an extensive scale that the economic section of the league | devote more at- tention to them than hitherto if it nts to increase commercial in-| tercourse and, brecak down the bar- | riers of national exclusiveness. “The brotherhood of man already | subject of an organized campaign of publicity in the [nirnd States,” Lord Burnham said, “and the league of nations | must take into account the expand- utilities of the r aper press the intelligence department of international exchange.” At another point in his address Lord Burnham said: “Our indepen- dence is our power and we must hold f. to our gov g princi- ples of public service a enlight- enment.” | ports from imiral Luke ito join the searc: |sea area before falling of the press. [ NO CLUE ON SEA; SEARCH NEAR END ‘Little Hope Lett for Finding of Missing Fliers THURSDAY IS LAST DAY First Prize Winner and Companions to Return Home After Week of | Triumph In Honclulu. San Francisco, Aug. 24 (F—A4 wo- man and four men—se days lost at sea—one more day of search Hope for the missing Dole race fliers, Miss Mildred Doran, John ‘Auggy” Pedlar, Licut. V. R. Knope, Jack Frost and Gordon Scott, who eft the Oakland municipal airport for Hawaii a week ago today, glim- mered wanly on the seventh day of Isitence ces were as faint for the re- 3 of Captain William P. Erwin and A. H. Eichwaldt, who flew out {ot the airport Friday in search of their missing companions and were believed to have crashed into the gea | |after sending out a frantic SOS. on | their radio. In the face of 42 trovers, searching er flashing the |colorless, “nil-nil-nil” peri- jodically by radio, came word that 15 uddl!lona’ destroyers and one light cruiser under command of Rear amee, were orde: Pacific Fieet Searching Rear Admiral Richard H. Jackson, {commander of the Pacific fleet, or- dered these boats into action with the idea of scrutinizing uncovered “zero " Thursday. en destroyers, deploved, across ile front, are continuing me well nig! peless search along th great circle steamer lane be[“cen San Francisco and Honoluly, land hour, fand sea planes dispatched from the | the decks of the airplane carrier Langley and the aircraft tender Aroostook are scouting an 80 mile atch of sca and every effort is be- to trace down recurren! land or ocean. a story that a gree to rise and die down ugged slopes of Mauna Kea, in the island of Ha- waii, Sunday night, has thus far fail- ed to tesult in definite word that any | of the fliers has been found. With the approach of t ‘zero hour” set for Thursday night by the navy department, wh all its ves- sels shall abandon the doubt was expressed b: riners and ex- | perienced navy fliers t of the Dole flight planes could have re- mained afloat this long, even though favored with a week of mild weather. "\m cii concerre Victors To Return Honolulu, Aug. 24 P — Arthur | (Continued on Page 13) \THINK BOY MAY HAVE KILLED SELF AFTER FINDING OF MOTHER’S BODY Aug. 24 (UP)—Every e of Harry Hill, suspected killing his wealthy mother in Streator, Ill, was under | police surveillance today as addi- | tional cirev evidence was revealed te k the vouth | with the crime | Detectives advanced the possi- bility that Hill had committed sui- cide by jumping into Lake Michigan when he learned vesterday after. noon that his mother's body had | | been found buricd under the floor N the cellar of her home in Streat- {or, T A wairant formally charging young Hill with the slaying was is- sued today by State's Attorney Rus- sel Hanson of La Salle county. From evidence gathered by investigators in Streator, Hanson advanced this theory of the shooting: “Hill and his mother awarrelling about money We know of five checks, on which Harry either forged his mother's name or signed them ‘Per Harry Hill' They were cashed between July 22 and August 13. “On the latter date, Hill register- ed at a hotel and stayed there two days. It is probable the shooting was committed a day or two before that time. “The slayer evidently waited un- til Mrs. Hill had gone into the base- ment of her home. As she ascended | had been matters, the stairs to the first floor, according to indications, the slayer fired a shot from behind which struck her be- ind the ear. The bullct lodged in the wall but had been removed. hen the body was dragged across the cellar into corner and buried. “Hill stayed around town a few days and then left for Chicago. old everyone who questioned him, including Alice Sawyer, whom he was to have married next month, that his mother was out of town.” ‘While evidence was being gather- ed against his son, Dr. H. C. Hill, di a vorced husband of the dead woman, | employed two attorneys to assure Harry a fair trial if he is captured in Chicago. Several addresses found in a note- book belonging to Hill were watched by police but none of the persons whose names were in the book had seen the suspect within the last 24 hours. He was last seen at the home of William Brydges, which he left yes- terday afternoon after spending the night, less than an hour before de- tectives arrived to search for him. Hill attended Knox college, Gales- burg, Ill, for part of the 1923.24 school year. Records show he left school because of illness. He had no fraternity affiliations and was reported to have run away to Texas when he left college. remote | He | RITAIN HERALD CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927 —SIXTEEN PAGES Woman Proves Herself Good Traffic Officer New York, Aug. 24— (UP)— Benjamin Rosenthal’s taxicab struck a man and ripped his pants off. omem ise left him un- harmed. The man 1-aped into a taxicab and disappeared which would have been the end of this story it Miss Helen McAllen, go, had not intervene Allen was one of b among theater crowds who nessed the inciden “It you were dri you wouldn't garding Tllinois in a n jectionable to Miss M Say that again and I your face,” she told h Rosenthal did So did Miss McAll Then she had rested for reckl Magistrate Bro at $200. —_— PROTEST POWER HERS, EDNA MILLAY CLAIMS Traces Ancestry Back to t Settlers of New England v fixed bail Boston, 24 (P—Si: Aug. \l eir pl"‘\el lm= and Vanzetti in use, were at ing further hearing of their cases, Miss Edna St. Mill Katharine Huntingten, a Ellen Hayes told the court they b }Hexed they ¥ protest as th |each was | settlers in Ne |lay said |Me,, and was a grad | Miss Ha Sacco y téday y;e | m!) Mil- Wel- | in writing i the is now engage three who cha {Lawton, “Mott Fra president of the Labor congress. the American defended them. Another demonstrator ¥ eves fi'oor 0’ sco, and William L. Pat An Ar Civil Liberties who 4 graduate. |not knowing that 4 from the ps: “LWN'JI where !‘fi was sent lo E‘(’ Hargood tor attempt oceedings. ted four times lesser cf‘f(nse* and w | e had appealed when he w taken by the police on Menday and |sent to the hospital. He had no comment to m his release. WEDDED FOR 49 YEARS; BRINGS DIVORCE SUIT New Britain Woman, Aged 65, Is Plaintiff in Action after Mrs. Alena M. Atkins, 65, who ht cclebrate her golden wedding n band for divorce. | The couple have a son, Frederick E. | Atkins, Jr : Irs. Atkins 'Etldew at 120 Com about 3 | from Hartford, where she resided for more than 30 yeats. ed | She refused to divulge her reasons for bringing the divorce, idid say that it was an actic “"Cdld have been tak only a certain thing prevented it. ‘ Joseph G. Woods is ‘ TOBACCO SHEDS BLR\ED | Windsor, Conn., Fire of undetermined ol destroyed four seven-acre t. sheds of the American Tobacco com pany. Three of the sheds we: was estimated at $1 ds were located on planta- 2, near Griffin station. —_— Mayor Walker Laughs At Germany’s Hisses . 24 (UP) — Mayor Iker was greeted with hisses today from a Sacco-Vanzotti pa- ¥ hall hisses | HIGH TIDE (Aug. 25—Daylight Time) New London 8:58 am., 9:12 pm. | New Haven 10:55 a.m., 11:11 p.m. | THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Partly cloudy and cooler to- night; Thursday fair. | * ¥ | | * Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Aug. 20th ... 14,033 PRICE THREE CENTS nurpustinGrLN 'SACCO COMMITTEE TO DEFY HEALTH RULES AND PARADE BODIES THROUGH BOSTON'S LARGEST STREETS SUNDAY FOR SINKING FUND } TOINSURE SCHOOLY, il Yake Report to Speil Gommittee or Go Direct to | Board of Education PROTEGTION PATHENT FIR FIVE BULDINGS Investigator Advances Claim Econo- mies Have Been Effected Else- where By Communities Setting Aside Fund Annually to Pay For Damage to, Or Destruction of Only five school buil s city would be protected by | f the recommen of School C Day to a s school b | that the this re in- today am H. of the | He proposes | Schoo! Houses By Fire, | | | » |appointe Ibut if a ance on ,ml t old Bu land th [aien of w Consolid: ving $12 te of 37 cents s agun' and em w to a fund fire found board fails to ap- bilities of the plan, Day is planning a compromise | plan by which the school buildinge al basis ool dis- com- uthorities probably | data with of the protection at 'LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS - G0INROGUES’ GALLERY Capital to Class Notorious Rum Runner With QOther Criminals otographing of during | | reason why and at the next c a noticeable absence of liquor ped- | [hey didn't like the rogues | tors to be photegraphed to the discretion of the | Is under the or- in vehicles. al possession of a were character \mlflmrw 43 IN HARBOR SWIM New Haven, Aug. 24 (A—Forty- i~hrie swimm are entered in the icress harbor swim from Savin Rock to Lighthouse Point this afternoon. | The contest is an official three mile state championship race. Reported to Have | becam | country | including a $10,000 PAONESSA RALLIES T0 QUIGLEY'S A1 {Ex-Mayors in Agreement on Sewage Disposal Experiments CALLS 1T STATES TASK ¥ormer Democratic Executive Sarys He Advised Mayor Weld on In- auguration Day to Do Nothing on Sewer Question. That ' he thorou ex-Mayor Ge latter's ca uction of lant at the expe who decla lic spirited citi Mr. Quigley i The great problem of the city at at is not school building con- ion, water board improvements n the construction plant, but the reconstruction of the sto; nadequate, that the disposal success r. Quigley state build plant and fully have the ci functions purchase it, also approval of ex- According to Mr. Paonessa he made a similar propo- - |sition before a committee of 35 in a conference before Judge Markham in Hartford two years ago. On the day of Mayor Weld's in- auguration, Mr. Paonessa said that while in conference with Mr. “'e‘ld time was not anything in the matter of disposal until he had con- either Mr. Quigley or him- He s=aid he had confidence in Qu: because of his consci- vy of the matter. In 1219 the common council pass. ed a resolution recommended by the t an appriopriation of $10,- 000 be given to the state to experi- e New Britain sewerage Paonessa, then alder- 2 losing fight against ion and when the vote was taken he alone voted in opposi- tion, he said. sulted self. Mr m to stop the further expendi- of the $10.000. An investiga- tion by the mayor brought the in- formation tk $700 more than the amount appro- d and Mr. Paonessa claimed no relief was brought about. As ex-Mayor George A. Quigley s reply to Engineer S. H. Wadhams of the state water board, . Paonessa agrees that the city reasonable measures but that it tired of eriments. BANKER FLEECED OF $250 Given from Personal Funds in Retura for Worthless Check. etails are 1 today that is being made check deal through t local bank offi- According to the re- loaned the money 14 took a check in re- . having been assured that the Hav an out of town bank. a were required Although d vestigation into an alleged bad cial lost § left v, the banker found ported today that the ot ended sible to lear: the state had spent | | Money lot 8970, wa- | | ters. | steam power plant, WHOLE TOWN S0LD | FOR 91 THOUSAND, 7 {Houses Bring Average of $970; Some for $400 C0ST MILLION 10 BUILD Greatest Sale Bargain Is Two and | One-Half Story, Four Family, Twenty Room Brick House for $100. 00 by the ance corporation, on b ¢ the B. B. owners parcels cluded The of real 78 he houses brought an avera; and the three mills w 2 hitects and Fuilding contrac- | who wera at would cost at least one million doi- lars to duplicate today these prop- at sold for $91.000. 1 by a woolen dealer of Woon- . for $9,000. s 2 and 3 went to W. J. Brady of Uxbridge, for $4,800 and $9,300 ectively. Mill 1 is a three and four story cut granite structure, having a floor area of 125,000 square feet, equipped with elevators, sprink- toilet rooms, fi tower: water wheels, generators, strongly fenced and in fine condition. Included with Mill 1 is a two ory cut granite warehouse, built 1919. All flowage and riparian ghts necessary to protect the wa- ter for this mill were included in | the sale. Mill 2 is a three stor cut granits weave shed feet of floor equipped and i des several other buildings and |riparian rights. | | 1a Mill 8 is a four story cut granite mill with 125,000 square feet of floor space and is equipped with elevators and steam power plant. What was considered one of the greatest sale bargains was a’ 2 1.2 story, four family, 20 room brick {house that went for $400. Mill 1 is to be put into operation | | within three months, as a woolen factory, according to the new own- er. Mills 2 and 3, which were bought for the Waucautuck mills of Ux- bridge, will be put to some use soon, but just what has not been determined. NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD SERVICE HURT Heavy Downpour Floods Tracks In Many Places and Causes Several Washouts. Providence, R. I, Aug. 24 (UP)— eavy downpour that caused many washouts seriously affected service the Shore line of the New York, Haven and Hartford railroad Near Providence sta deep. fon, water Streets in At Flmwood, a washout 25 feet long and four feet deep, was report- ed. Thres carloads of gravel had to be Springs. out occurred at Red ween Brighton ave- were diverted. reported at Trains were dcl"‘t‘d from 10 mi: utes to an hour, eastbound trains be- |ing held at New London, Conn., track repairs. s were being operated at ! OHIO CONVICT TELLS OF BURNING SHRINE AT ST. ANNE DE BEAUPRE Columbus | —Chur robbery never tried before Ray Marsden, now a convict the Ohio penitentiary, claims he started on his career of robbing altars. n his latest newspapermen toda had obtained mo loot from various churches over the in the last 28 years. He aims to have some of the loot yet crozier stolen from Cardinal Daugherty in Phila- delphia. Prison authorities have not been able to substantiate his story even though he was taken to the Cana- dian border recently to find some of the buried loot. He has admitted robbing a number of churches in eastern Canada. Ohio, Aug. 24.—(UP) ‘“confession” made to ¢ he said that he & than $300,000 in | | {saw a wooden box “1 started stealing in 1899,” said today. he “1 was flat broke and in St. Patrick’s church in Janesville, Wis. 1 opened it and found $680. He continued robbing churches from then on. Every now and then his gang would be forced to burn a church, according to his story. “Whenever we had a hard tirge robbing a church in the regular way we would burn it,” he said. “Then during the excitement we would rush in and take everything valu- able. When the priests rushed out from their houses to the church we would loot their property too.” He told reporters once that he burned St. Paul's cathedral at Mon- treal, a Catholic church at Brum- mond, Que., the shrine at St. Anne E;Belupra and the Basilica at Que- the sale sajd n‘ George | — .200 “thclal Mourn- s” Chosen-Prepare To Have Death Masks Of Corpses Made- | May Erect Large Monument. |Will Hire Hall and Have '} Radicals Lie in State in | North End District— | Vanzetti’s Ashes to Be Carried Home to Father. | Boston, Aug. 24 (UP)—Detying e and health officials, the de- fense tee announced this fternoon that the bodies of Nicola acco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti A culd be bo! ough the: eit cets Sunday Boston will be given this final nity to pay tribute to the | de rarct , ‘“permits or no 3 rdmg to the commit- | Mourners will assemble at North End park at 1:30 p. m. The funeral procession will leave at 2 p. m., passing through many of the prin- cipal streets to the Northern mer- tuary, under plans virtually com- | pleted today. While it was sald there would be only 200 “official mourners,” it was predicted that hundreds more would join the procession. Boston, Aug. 24 (UP)—Though legally closed by death, the Sacco- | Vanzetti case clashed again - today with the laws of the commonwealth. Funeral plans for the humble shoemaker and fish peddler who jwere electrocuted early yesterday |tor a sevensyear-old crime of mur- der were the cause o fthe post- |mortem controversy. | Loval friends of the cause wanted |to give the public an opportunity {to pay final tribute to the *mar- tyrs.” But the law cast a shadow on the elaborate plans of the de- fense forces to honor Nicola facco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti even in death. Arrangements for a mammoth funeral procession for Sunday aft- grnoon conflicted with the regula- tion that bodies shall be interred within four days after death. Thus, burial or cremation of the (Continued on Page 13.) RADICALS® FAREWELL LETTER IS PUBLISHED Addressed to Defense Com- mittee Thanking Them for Brave Battle Boston, Aug. 24.—(UP)—Nleola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti wrote a farewell letter, which has been made public by the defense committee. The letter, dated August 21 and addressed to the committee, was as follows: “After tomorrow midnight, we will be executed, save a new staying of the execution by either the United States supreme court, or by Gover- nor Alvan T. Fuller. “We have no hope. This morning our brave defender and friend, Michael Angelo Musmanno, was here after his return from Wash- ington, and told us he would come back this afternoon, i he would | have time. Also Rosa (Sacco's wife) nd Luigia (Vanzetti's sister) were ere this afternoon. But now it is 5:30 p. m. and no one returned yet. “This tells us that there is no £00d news, for if there were, some of you would have hurried to bring it to us. It almost tells us that all vour efforts have failed and that you are spending these remaining few hours in desperate and hopeless efforts to prevent our execution. “In a word, we feel lost! There- fore, we decided to write this letter (Continue on Page 18) Black Bottom Gives Way to “Kinkajou” New York, Aug. 24 (UP)—"The Black Bottom is dead; long live the Kinkajou!” That is what the dancing masters of America, meeting in New ' York today, hope will become the ball room cry of the nation, “Good dancing or none” was the slogan adopted for this year's cam- paign. The kinkajou is the best dance of the year and will help keep the art on a high level, leaders said. But they also praised. the Yankes Prance and another dance in honer - of the aviator, called the Lindbergh wave waltz. Twenty thousand booklets descrfb- ing correct postures and positions of - the various approved dances will be distributed.